Togekiss

If there was any Pokemon created to take advantage of Serene Grace it would be Togekiss. Armed with a fantastic movepool including STAB Air Slash and its 60% chance to flinch and excellent overall stats, Togekiss can serve as a good utility Pokemon and an overall annoyance. Togekiss’s access to Nasty Plot gives it a unique role as a boosting tank in DPP OU, as it can leverage its bulk to set up and cleave through bulkier, slower foes with Air Slash while healing off the damage with Roost. Additionally, since Air Slash already has decent coverage by itself and can be made almost perfect with Aura Sphere, it can fit many other support options, such as Thunder Wave, Substitute, and Heal Bell to facilitate itself. Togekiss’s great offensive movepool also lets it serve as an effective all-out-attacker, as it is excellent at trading with Steel-types and Tyranitar with Fire Blast. Togekiss’s typing and bulk helps it check some challenging Pokemon—it notably is a solid offensive check to Gengar as it isn’t 2HKOed by Focus Blast and 2HKOes back, it OHKOes Breloom with ease, and it can take on Pokemon that typically can’t hit it super effectively in a pinch, such as Heatran, Flygon, and Infernape.

Togekiss unfortunately is very uncommon in DPP OU due to the severe flaws from its typing and its mediocre Speed stat. Being Normal-type is a huge issue for Togekiss, as it only gives Togekiss an immunity to Ghost-types in exchange for cursing it with a neutrality to Fighting. Along with its weakness to Stealth Rock, Togekiss needs an extensive support structure to function on more defensive teams, as it can’t switch into Breloom’s Focus Punch or Superpower—typical responsibilities of defensive Flying-types. This often leads to it being outclassed by Zapdos and Gliscor, who have significantly more resistances, including Fighting. Additionally, Togekiss struggles to fit on more offensive teams, as it is simply too slow to sweep without extensive paralysis support in addition to its debilitating Stealth Rock weakness. Offensive Nasty Plot sets are outsped by the majority of the metagame even with maximum Speed and Togekiss has no reliable way to boost its Speed. While Togekiss can be difficult to KO, it struggles to switch in on many Pokemon and threaten them out due to its lack of resistances and how weak Air Slash is if it doesn’t flinch the foe.